Jose Teixeira spoke during a meeting of Health, Agriculture and Environment delegates that took place t in the Old City, on the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, in which he conveyed the authorities’ concerns about the high number of stray dogs in the archipelago.
Particularly in some islands, and among the most rural populations, the presence of these animals has translated into high losses, taking into account that attacks on cattle, especially goats, are becoming more frequent.
Every day we have farmers who complain that two or three goats have been attacked by stray dogs, Jose Teixeira said, acknowledging the extent of a problem that has already led authorities to come up with a plan that is still awaiting funding.
The response to the problem of stray dogs in Cape Verde, more than 10,000, according to the authorities’ estimates should be the capture of the animals, whose priority will be given to those who reach the lands of the farmers most harmed by the presence of these animals.
According to Jose Teixeira, the slaughter will respect the law and will only happen if the animals are not adopted in the meantime.
The plan of the authorities to solve this problem also includes castrations to avoid the proliferation of animals, awareness of the population against the abandonment of canines and campaigns to promote the animals.
The Director General of Agriculture and Livestock of Cape Verde has specified that the islands of Fogo, Maio, Santa Cruz and Boavista are the ones that cause the most worries and where the attacks of the dogs were more frequent, with the consequent damages for the farmers.
Meanwhile, A doctor thought to have embezzled £400,000 of NHS cash before fleeing the UK has been found dead with his partner in an apparent murder suicide.
Titus Bradley, 42, left Hastings a year ago shortly before a large quantity of money was found to be missing from the accounts of four GP practices he ran.
His body was found with that of his Hungarian girlfriend in the Divin’ Art guest house in Cape Verde on 15 April.
Sussex Police confirmed it had been investigating the theft of NHS funds.
In a statement, the force said it was contacted by NHS Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group in May last year about the possible inappropriate use of funds at the Cornwallis Plaza surgery.
A subsequent investigation had established a substantial sum of money had been taken.
The force said inquiries had been made to trace two former employees at the group in connection with its investigation.
It confirmed receiving reports the couple have been found dead but await formal confirmation of this from the Portuguese authorities via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The bodies of Dr Bradley and Noemi Gairgay, 28, were found two days after they had checked in to the guest house on the island of Santo Antao, off the west coast of Africa.
Dr Bradley, who is originally from the Llanelli area in Wales, is believed to have shot his girlfriend before taking his own life.
Helder Bentub, co-manager of the guest house said it was understood the couple had been arguing in the restaurant and their room.
Three minutes later, clack clack with the gun and I called the police, the manager said.
The police go in the room and see the two people dead in the toilet, he said.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: Our staff are assisting the family of a British man following his death in Cape Verde and are in contact with the local authorities.
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